The European Higher Education Sector Scoreboard (EHESS) allows comparing the European higher education systems according to key indicators organised around major themes corresponding to the main EU higher education policy objectives:
- Transnational cooperation in Europe in higher education, research and innovation.
- EU values such as institutional autonomy and academic freedom, fostering gender balance, diversity and inclusiveness.
- Future proof skills and cooperation with industrial ecosystems.
- International cooperation in higher education, research and innovation.
- Higher education sector context indicators.
EHESS brings together different sources of data. Data sources are specified for each indicator individually, which includes:
- Eurostat Education and Training Statistics provided by national statistical sources.
- European Tertiary Education Register (ETER) provided by national statistical sources.
- EHESO Institutional Survey collected through an EHESO higher education institutions survey.
- Erasmus+ data on mobilities, joint programs etc.
- EUROSTUDENT collected by EUROSTUDENT survey.
- EUROGRADUATE collected by EUROGRADUATE survey.
- Publication data produced by the CWTS based on OpenAlex.
- Other external sources as specified in the description of individual indicators.
The geographical coverage of the first edition of EHESS encompasses EU-27, EFTA countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland), the United Kingdom and some of the candidate and potential candidate countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Türkiye, Kosovo*).
The reference year for the first edition is calendar year 2022, corresponding to academic year of 2021/2022 in Eurostat. Whenever possible, time series data is available up to the year of 2015.
*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence.